Economic success depends on immigration fix

5:26 AM,
Jun. 16, 2013

Written by

Floyd Shechter

SmartSpace LLC is a small business I started 20 years ago in Nashville. We own and operate 700,000 square feet of office space - once-vacant buildings that we repurposed into sustainable buildings where economic activity and jobs thrive.

Companies that lease space in our buildings employ more than 2,300 Nashvillians in good-paying white-collar jobs. A significant number of these employees, including top managers, were not born in the United States.

That is just one of the many reasons I support the "Gang of Eight" immigration reform bill. ...